Board

David Baldwin, Ph.D., is a licensed Psychologist practicing in Eugene, Oregon. My clinical specialty is in the treatment of emotional trauma and Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), following a wide variety of stressful or traumatic events (including natural or man-made disasters). In my practice, I work primarily with adults and adolescents or older children -- using solution-focused or other brief therapy approaches as appropriate -- concerning a broad range of issues. I've been licensed as a psychologist in Oregon since 1989. My main interest is in understanding trauma responses and their resolution; this primarily includes treating, but also speaking, consulting, writing, and researching emotional trauma issues.

 Emilie Conrad,   is the pioneer and founder of Continuum movement, a world-renowned self-discovery and movement method based on her insight that we find within our bodies an expression of our profound rapport with our environment, a rapport that is revealed and can be explored through movement. The principles of Conrad’s Continuum movement are incorporated by an international audience of professionals in such fields as Rolfing, physical therapy, psychoneuroimmunology, craniosacral therapy, dance, yoga, therapeutic massage, and physical fitness.



Ron Kurtz  is the original developer of the Hakomi Method, beginning thirty-nine years ago. He has been leading workshops and trainings since the mid-1970’s. He led the first training in the Hakomi Method in 1977. In 1981, along with Pat Ogden, Ph.D. and Dyrian Benz-Chartrand, Ph.D., he founded the Hakomi Institute. Together, they did the first Institute training. Pat, Dyrian and Ron have since left the Hakomi Institute. Pat started her own training organization, the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute. It can be found at: www.sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org. Dyrian is a core faculty member of the Santa Barbara Graduate Institute. Ron founded Ron Kurtz Trainings, Inc. and joined with trainers Donna Martin, Bob Milone, Flint Sparks, Georgia Marvin, Jeff Chernove and several others, in founding the Hakomi Educational Network (Int’l)

Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD  graduated from the University of British Columbia with a combined M.D. and Ph.D. degree in Neuroscience in 1996.  She continued her training at the University of Western Ontario where she completed her residency in psychiatry in 2000.  She is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Western Ontario.  She established and directs the Traumatic Stress Service, a service that specializes in the treatment and research of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and related comorbid disorders.  Her research interests focus on studying the neural correlates of PTSD using neuroimaging (functional magnetic resonance imaging) and treatment outcome research examining various pharmacological and psychotherapeutic methods.  Her research is currently funded by several federal funding agencies.  Dr. Lanius is an ad hoc reviewer for numerous journals and granting agencies.  She has lectured on the topic of PTSD in North America, Europe and Japan.

Reo Leslie, D.Min.  is an ordained pastor in boththe Baptist Church and the United Church of Christ. He is a Licensed Professional Counselor in Colorado and a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Hawaii and Colorado. Dr. Leslie is the founder, CEO, Chaplain, Senior Faculty Member and School Director of the Colorado School for Family Therapy. The School is approved and regulated by the State of Colorado and  Department of Higher Education, Division of Private Occupational Schools. Dr. Leslie has  also taught courses in play therapy, religious studies, theology, nonprofit management, ethics, marriage and family therapy, psychology and counseling at the M.A. and Ph.D. levels at the University of Guam, Naropa University, Argosy University, Salve Regina University, and Asbury Theological Seminary and taught courses on Psychology, Multicultural Studies, and Africana Studies on the undergraduate level at the University of Northern Colorado (UNC) Greeley.  Dr. Leslie has thirty-one years of  post-masters experience in counseling, consulting. supervision, and training. 

Melissa Miller, LCSW has 15 years of experience working with such issues as anxiety, depression, marital problems, grief, trauma, communication skills, probelm solving, consulting, and life transition work, all from a faith based perspective. She also works with people who do not choose a faith or meaning-making approach to their counseling, and do not ever impose my views on my clients.
Although she works with numerous men and am very interested in their understanding of life, my current non-therapy projects involve women's issues:How women's attitudes about their bodies changes over the life span. How to gain, maintain, and sustain a fulfilling marriage. What women pray for, why, and how.

Ellert Nijenhuis, Ph.D. Ellert R.S. Nijenhuis, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist, psychotherapist, and researcher. He received his Ph.D., with the highest honors, at the Medical Department of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam for his book: Somatoform Dissociation: Phenomena, measurement, and theoretical issues [currently in reprint with W.W. Norton, New York].In 1998 the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISST-D) granted him the Morton Prince Award for Scientific Excellence for his scientific contributions; in 2000 the Pierre Janet Writing Award; and in 2002 the status of Fellow for his outstanding contributions to the diagnosis, treatment, research, and education in dissociative disorders. He works at the Outpatient Department of Psychiatry of Mental Health Care Drenthe, Assen, The Netherlands, where he engages in the diagnosis and treatment of severely traumatized patients, and chairs the Trauma Committee.

He performs his original scientific research at this hospital, and collaborates with the Universities of Groningen, Utrecht, Amsterdam, Zürich, and Saarbrücken. His innovating empirical and experimental research addresses the psychology and psychobiology of chronic traumatization and dissociation.

Clare Pain, M.D. is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry, University of Toronto;  Director, Psychological Trauma Program, Mount Sinai Hospital ; Coordinator of the Toronto Addis Ababa Academic Collaboration, Co-Author, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Paychotherapy

Allan Schore, Ph.D., is on the clinical faculty of the Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences, UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine, and at the UCLA Center for Culture, Brain, and Development. He is author of three seminal volumes, Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self, Affect Dysregulation and Disorders of the Self and Affect Regulation and the Repair of the Self, as well as numerous articles and chapters. His Regulation Theory, grounded in developmental neuroscience and developmental psychoanalysis, focuses on the origin, psychopathogenesis, and psychotherapeutic treatment of the early forming subjective implicit self. His contributions appear in multiple disciplines, including developmental neuroscience, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, developmental psychology, attachment theory, trauma studies, behavioral biology, clinical psychology, and clinical social work. His groundbreaking integration of neuroscience with attachment theory has lead to his description as "the American Bowlby" and with psychoanalysis as "the world's leading expert in neuropsychoanalysis."

Martha Stark, M.D., A psychiatrist/psychoanalyst on the faculty of Harvard Medical School and in private practice in Newton. In addition, she is a Teaching Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute, is a Teaching/Supervising Analyst at the Massachusetts Institute For Psychoanalysis, is on the faculty of the Center for Psychoanalytic studies at the Massachusetts General Hospital, and teaches in the Program of Continuing Education at the Smith College School for Social Work.  She is currently at work on her new book entitled Relentless Hope: The Refusal To Grieve. own bodies.

Philip Bromberg, PhD. is an American Psychologist and Psychoanalyst who is actively involved in the training of mental health professionals throughout the United States. Dr. Bromberg is most widely known as the author of Standing in the Spaces: Essays on Clinical Process, Trauma, and Dissociation (1998) and Awakening the Dreamer: Clinical Journeys (2006). For over 30 years he has written extensively concerning human mental development and the patient/therapist relationship, and has presented an Interpersonal/Relational point of view that emphasizes self-organization, states of consciousness, dissociation, and multiple self-states. Dr. Bromberg is a Training and Supervising Analyst at the William Alanson White Institute, and Clinical Professor of Psychology, New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and ABPP Diplomate in Clinical Psychology. He is on the editorial boards of Psychoanalytic Dialogues, Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis, and Psychoanalytic Inquiry.

Beatrice Beebe, Ph.D.  is a psychoanalyst and an infant researcher. She is Clinical Professor of Medical Psychology (in Psychiatry), College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University, New York State Psychiatric Institute; faculty at the Columbia Psychoanalytic Center, the Institute for the Psychoanalytic Study of Subjectivity, and the N.Y.U. Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis. Dr. Beebe is the recipient of many national awards including the American Psychological Association's Morton Schillinger Award for Lifetime Contributions to Psychoanalysis. She co-authored with Jaffe et al. Rhythms of Dialogue in Infancy. With Lachmann, she authored Infant Research and Adult Treatment: Co-Constructing Interactions, and authored with Knoblauch, Rustin and Sorter: Forms of Intersubjectivity in Infant Research and Adult Treatment. She has a forthcoming book in the Monographs of Attachment and Human Development: Mother-Infant Communication Disturbances and the Prediction of Attachment Insecurity. She is in private practice in New York City, specializing in adult psychoanalysis and mother-infant treatment. Currently she directs a primary prevention program for mothers who were pregnant and widowed on 9-11.

Marion Solomon, Ph.D.   is Director of Training of the Lifespan Learning Institute. She is a Senior Extension Instructor of the Department of Humanities, Sciences and Social Sciences of UCLA. She is author of "Narcissism and Intimacy "and "Lean on Me: The Power of Positive Dependency in Intimate Relationships". She is co-author of "Short Term Therapy for Long Term Change" and an editor of "Healing Trauma: Attachment, Mind, Body, and Brain", "Countertransference in Couples Therapy", and "The Borderline Patient, Volumes I & II"

Bonnie Goldstein, Ph.D.   is Child and Adolescent Consultant for the Lifespan Learning Institute. She is a practicing psychotherapist, specializing in child, adolescent, family and group treatment. She is the author of Understanding, Diagnosing and Treating Attention Deficit Disorder/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children and Adolescents; The Handbook of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy; A Guide to Diagnosis and Treatment, Volumes I & II;and A Text for Children and Their Families; I Will Know What to Do: A Guide to Dealing with Trauma, and the Forthcoming Adolescent Dilemmas.